Word Meanings - INANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. "Vague and inane instincts." I. Taylor. -- In*ane"ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INANE)

• Flimsy
• Gauzy
• poor
• thin
• transparent
• trifling
• trivial
• puerile
• inane
• slight
• superficial
• weak
• shallow

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INANE)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to INANE)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• INANE
  That which is void or empty. The undistinguishable inane of infinite space. Locke.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• TRIVIALNESS
  Quality or state of being trivial.
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• TRIFLING
  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• SLIGHT
  1. To overthrow; to demolish. Clarendon. 2. To make even or level. Hexham. 3. To throw heedlessly. The rogue slighted me into the river. Shak.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• TRIVIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• DISRESPECT
  Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.
• IRRESPECTIVE
  1. Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment. According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God. Rogers.
• MISOBSERVER
  One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.